Hidden inside catalogers sit catalogers and recatalogs, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 799 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
catalogers and recatalogs tie for the highest Scrabble score from catalogers at 13 points. The top 10 of 799 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in catalogers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and catalogers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are catalogers and recatalogs, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling catalogers turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cataloger, galactose, and recatalog, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catalogers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catalogs. For points, the strongest plays are cartages, catalogs, escargot, and gelcoats — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in catalogers produces 60 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catalog, coaster, largest, locates, and storage. For points, the strongest plays are cargoes, cartage, catalog, corsage, gelcoat, scalage, and socager — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling catalogers turns up 143 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, alerts, altars, alters, castle, caters, and clears. For points, the strongest plays are cagers, cargos, glaces, graces, and socage — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 220 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catalogers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, alert, altar, alter, areas, cages, and cares. For points, the strongest plays are cager, cages, cargo, clags, clegs, clogs, crags, glace, grace, and scrag — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in catalogers produces 226 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ages, also, area, arts, cage, and care. For points, the strongest plays are cage, clag, cleg, clog, cogs, crag, and scag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling catalogers turns up 110 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age, ago, are, art, ate, and car. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catalogers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in catalogers plus one additional letter.
catalogers is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for catalogers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
catalogers is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing catalogers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are catalogers and recatalogs, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from catalogers earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in catalogers produce 799 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 60 seven-letter words, 143 six-letter words, 220 five-letter words, 226 four-letter words, 110 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.